With a couple more months of offseason left to go, now is the perfect time to dive into a few of the Lakers’ most memorable playoff moments.However, the goal here isn’t just to remember these moments, it is to remember the moments leading up to THE moment that overshadowed everything in that game, and sometimes the entire series. So let’s travel back in time history and recontextualize some of our favorite Lakers memories in order to fully appreciate their awesomeness.
To start, I re-watched Game 5 of the 2004 Western Conference Semifinals between the Lakers and Spurs, a game that went down to the wire with both teams trading blows all the way until the final buzzer.